Background to Danger (1943)
- Directed by
- Raoul Walsh
- Genre
- crime film, spy film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 29 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A neutral country becomes the setting for a spy conflict during World War II. An American man gets caught up in a dangerous plot involving secret documents and Russian operatives.
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What happens
Background to Danger is a 1943 World War II spy thriller film directed by Raoul Walsh. It stars George Raft with Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre. Based on the 1937 novel Uncommon Danger by Eric Ambler and set in politically neutral Turkey, the screenplay was credited to W. R. Burnett, although William Faulkner and Daniel Fuchs also contributed. The film was designed to capitalize on the runaway success of Casablanca, which had also featured Lorre and Greenstreet. The Russian operative positively portrayed by Brenda Marshall shows an exaggerated degree of cooperation, and the film has a slight pro-Soviet bias akin to Warner Bros.' Mission to Moscow from the same year. Walsh called the film "a quickie". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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